In 2017, astronomers found an object they’d never seen before. Now, it’s part of a growing category of elusive ‘dark comets’ ...

Don't think it's possible to capture a comet on an iPhone? Check out the incredible image (below) from @bytemarks, captured ...

Water. All life on Earth requires it in some way or another, and it's hard to miss that roughly 70% of our planet's surface ...

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft launched to Earth orbit in 2009 and was placed in hibernation in ...

Captured by the LASCO instrument on NASA's SOHO Observatory, which orbits Earth, the latest image shows comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) — also known as comet A3 — just three days before it ...

Comets are icy bodies that formed alongside the planets in the early Solar System before being flung into its distant outer ...

Scientists have revived the theory that short-period comets could have played a crucial role in filling Earth's oceans with ...

The rocky bodies, which look like asteroids but act like comets, could comprise up to 60% of near-Earth objects.

NEOWISE, NASA’s retired infrared telescope, has tracked numerous near-Earth objects and discovered a rare comet since 2013.

The origin of Earth’s abundant liquid water is still debated. Research suggests some water came from volcanic vapor that ...

Scientists find that cometary dust affects interpretation of spacecraft measurements, reopening the case for comets like 67P ...

Researchers have found that the water on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has a molecular signature similar to Earth's ocean ...